Defending America’s Freedom: It’s Everybody’s Job! Propaganda Posters of World War I

March 14, 2014 at 11:00 am

Selected from the collection of the Tacoma Public Library
Gallery open: Tuesday - Saturday; 11 am - 6 pm Gallery talk being held April 5th at 1-3 in the gallery.

The U.S. government, as well as all of the nations participating in the war effort, produced thousands of posters during World War I, urging citizens to buy war bonds, ration food, grow victory gardens, limit travel and avoid loose talkThe posters were not only means of justifying involvement to their own populace, but also as a tool to procure men, money and resources to sustain the military campaign.